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Gradually, and then suddenly

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"Bitcoin is money that has minimal to no dependency on the whims of third parties."

[Mwango Capital @MwangoCapital]

"MPs have padded their remuneration by KES 2B apparently to cushion themselves against the new wave of President William Ruto’s taxes such as the Housing levy"

These same MPs are the ones who happily passed these taxes into law.
https://t.co/MnbPUstAO2

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Easier to fill a mtungi than a dam

[Citizen TV Kenya @citizentvkenya]

Ndindi Nyoro: The economy of Kenya in 2023 grew faster than the economy of China and the United States

[Wrath Of Gnon @wrathofgnon]

A story of inappropriate technology: in the 1970s it was decided to modernize the rice farming of Sri Lanka, whose system that had not changed much for 3000 years. The goal was to replace the water buffalo with the modern tractor, but the attempt had disastrous consequences...

[Back & Body Hurts @HoneyandRum_]

The day is today.

[V 🇵🇸 @mockgoose]

Here’s the Anna Botting interview George mentioned. If you can’t watch it all, the final 45 seconds is epic.

[Philip Proudfoot @PhilipProudfoot]

Oh my gosh, watch the whole thing.

This is how you should talk to mainstream journalists.

[إيـمان | ‎﮼بكـــماء 🤚🏻🩸 @roo7yn]

@CensoredMen @georgegalloway Listen to @georgegalloway 👇🏻

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🎯 what right did Britain have to grant you somebody else's country?

[إيـمان | ‎﮼بكـــماء 🤚🏻🩸 @roo7yn]

@CensoredMen @georgegalloway Listen to @georgegalloway 👇🏻

[Alon Mizrahi @alon_mizrahi]

And all this time part of me keeps thinking: this is what white colonialism is doing in 2024, when almost everything is recorded and watched worldwide, and after The Holocaust and all the beautiful conventions. Can you imagine what it has been doing for 5 centuries when no one was looking? Can you see and feel some of the horror inflicted upon the native tribes and communities in the New World, and how they were treated? Of Indians under British imperialism? Of people in the Congo, and so many other parts of Africa? The natives in Canada, New Zealand, and Australia? The Philippines?

I'm looking at Gaza, and how its slaughter is being framed in the West and I feel like yes, I'm getting some of it. A taste of it. It is like a delirium sequence from Apocalypse Now, but spanning centuries.

Can we really comprehend the scope and implications of 5 centuries of this? The hundreds of millions. the billions of people whose cultures and stories have been forever impacted by this, if they even managed to survive it?

Gaza is a time capsule of things that have been unfolding for centuries across the globe. It should change our historical and political understanding forever

[Olga Bazova @OlgaBazova]

Here's everything you need to know about Google AI.

[James Kahongeh @JamesKahongeh_]

FAILURE OF THE LAKE TURKANA WIND PROJECT & WHY IT IS A LANDMINE IN DENMARK

When the Sh70 bn Lake Turkana Wind Project was completed in 2017, it was set to deliver power to 1M homes in Kenya. Seven years later, little is said about the project.
So, what went wrong? 🧵

[Solo Monk @JJKALE2]

"King Charles shouldn't be blamed for things his ancestors did."

The Irish response when the King visited Ireland in 1911.

[Geography of Kenya @kenyangeography]

Tana river is Kenya's primary river, supporting the country's agriculture, energy production, tourism and much more.

In this thread, we'll highlight the upstream hydrology of Tana river's tributaries and effects of hydrology on infrastructure, demographics and urbanisation.

[Hon.Moses Kuria,HSC @HonMoses_Kuria]

It is wrong to give an Israeli preacher an opportunity to give one sided views on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on National TV and in such a quasi State function. Kenya continues to call for a cessation of hostilities even as we show solidarity with Israel over the October 7th terror attacks. Kenya supports the rights of Palestinian people for self determination

[June 25th @Jasiri_WVR]

If we were a serious country, parliament would be investigating the use of state resources and taxpayer's funds on such. Last I checked, we have no official religion.

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fwiw one launch vehicle carries multiple satellites, as for cost per launch they want to reduce that by orders of magnitude. I think they've already done that compared to shuttle launch cost, will drive it down further with starship

[Great House @xspotsdamark]

According to Elon Musk, it costs SpaceX $55 million per launch. Elon also wants to launch 45,000 satellites for star link into orbit every 5 years. That is at least 2.5 quadrillion dollars. And people actually believe that shit is practical

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😄 prisoner's dilemma

[Juma G 🇰🇪 @jumaf3]

Indian families in Parklands are being given irresistible offers to sell off their homes... Money paid in hard cash... You refuse to sell, your neighbour sells and within three months, a 10-storey building pops up next to your bungalow... 😆. By then, the offer would reduce!

[Daniel Njaga @dnjaga1]

When the "peasants" replace dynasties, our wealth will be safe. Because they know the plight of hustlers.

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[Afshin Rattansi @afshinrattansi]

‘You don’t teach your children in schools a line of colonial history’ Shashi Tharoor destroys British🇬🇧 media over Britain’s colonial history

Real wages in India🇮🇳 declined by 23.3% during the 350 years of British rule

Under British rule, India's share of the world economy declined from 24.4% in 1700 to 4.2% in 1950

Britain stole $45 trillion in wealth from India during colonial rule

Based on England's 16th and 17th century mortality rate, the British Empire caused 165 million excess deaths in India between 1881 and 1920.

Extreme poverty increased from 23% in 1810 to more than 50% by the mid-20th century.

According to historian Mike Davis, during 120 years of the British Raj, there were 31 famines. Before British rule, there had been 17 famines in the last 2000 years.

The last famine caused by the British Empire, the Bengal famine, killed 4 million people.

@ShashiTharoor

[Curiosity @MAstronomers]

We are the first human beings to see a Mars sunset. It’s quite a thought